Hepzibah

[Mumblyboo]

right....i love this name...what do you lot think, yay or nay?

Nay

What is it about the name that you love? :-|

Actually really like it! But really unusual, which maybe is what you want.

Rather like it!

But I suspect it's so little used now that most people will only ever have heard of it in HP, and she wasn't a great character.

One of my gt gt grandmothers was called Hephzibah. I'm quite pleased it hasn't been passed down the family
So a nay from me!

We had a cat called Hepzibah!

Sorry, its a no from me.

Sorry, its a no from me.

Isn't that a witches name from some children's programme or book?

Didn't mean to double post - it's not that bad!

I like it. The only downside is if it gets shortened to Hep, especially if your surname starts with A, B or C

I think of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers too! I like it.

Love it.

AKiss

I went to school with a Hep.

Bloody hell. No.

Ridiculous

Carrie's War.

Love it.

Eppie from Silas Marner.

I love it but nowhere near brave enough!

When I was a teenager we had a family friend called Hephzibah who took me under her wing, taught me piano, taught me about feminism, then sadly died young [goes misty-eyed].

So I have a great fondness for the name. I'm not convinced your dd will thank you for it, though - it's so far out of fashion it may yet come back the other side

I knew a lovely one that went by hepsie.

I knew a lovely one. Middle name was Japonica.

I really rather like it.

Isn't there a journalist, Hepzibah Anderson who wrote Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year without Sex ?

I like it. Go for it.

Go on, I dare you!